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shifting households' attention to ei-ther supply-side or demand-side channels. Moreover, households with different personal …
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understand the formation of such views and find levers to affect them, we study the role of attention. In a large online … experiment, we investigate how subjects allocate their visual attention to the contributions of merit and luck in the generation … less attention to information about true merit and retain more of the surplus. Both the attentional and behavioral patterns …
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One of the dangers of high inflation is that it can cause firms and households to pay close attention to it. This … relationship between attention and the level of inflation for 37 countries. Our measures of attention are constructed either from … internet search behavior or the popularity of inflation mentions on Twitter. We find evidence that attention thresholds do …
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An extensive literature shows that reminders can successfully change behavior. Yet, there exists substantial unexplained heterogeneity in their effectiveness, both: (i) across studies, and (ii) across individuals within a particular study. This paper investigates when and why re-minders work. We...
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The effect of ranking and the effect of attention both increase the chances that candidates running in the top … and identify the effect of attention. We show that being listed on the reverse side of the ballot paper decreases …
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this result, we provide evidence that observed energy saving actions reflect an increased attention devoted to energy … pool of worry,' that might have even limited the impact of increased attention on the adoption of energy saving routines …. In sum, our findings highlight the importance of consumer attention for the adoption of conservation routines to fight …
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An extensive literature shows that reminders can successfully change behavior. Yet, there exists substantial unexplained heterogeneity in their effectiveness, both: (i) across studies, and (ii) across individuals within a particular study. This paper investigates when and why reminders work. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014278470
computer game in which decision makers have to pay attention to and perform multiple actions within a short period of time. The …
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We provide evidence on narratives about the macroeconomy—the stories people tell to explain macroeconomic phenomena—in the context of a historic surge in inflation. We measure economic narratives in open-ended survey responses and represent them as Directed Acyclic Graphs. We apply this...
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Attention is a pivotal resource in the modern economy and plays an increasingly prominent role in economic analysis. We … summarize research on attention from both psychology and economics, placing a particular emphasis on its capacity to explain …, including attention-based utility, the recent proliferation of attentional externalities introduced by digital technology, the …
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